The Age of Stupid, DVD review

Simplistic graphics undermine the case for climate change in 'The Age of
Stupid'. Rating: * *

Climate change usually features in the movies either as the subject of earnest documentaries (Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth), or as the context for a post-apocalyptic future (Waterworld, The Day After Tomorrow).

The Age of Stupid attempts to combine both, as Pete Postlethwaite looks back at the early 21st century from an archive of news and current affairs programming that points the way to the crisis to come, and documentary footage of key climate change figures. But simplistic graphics and voice-overs, a poorly rendered CGI future and Postlethwaite’s morose narration undermine director Fanny Armstrong’s case.